mario armstrong, hln's digital lifestyle expert, joins us from my hometown of baltimore. >> yes, indeed. >> mario, the iphone 5, we've seen the big reveal. is it living up to the hype? what's new with this? >> i mean, if you go with the pre-order sales, absolutely it's living up to the hype, and then some. >> yeah. >> because now you can no longer even buy it, at least online that is right now. i think a lot of people are trying to wait and see, is this the right phone for them? is this the right phone to upgrade to? if you've been on the iphone 4s, consider whether this is the right upgrade, iphone 4 or earlier, definitely makes sense. >> i'm on the 4s and still trying to figure out what's in it for me other than, you know, a lot of people are concerned about having to buy new chargers because right now you can use the same charger for the ipad and the iphone and the ipad, but now they have this new one. >> that's right. so what you're talking about is this connector. >> yes. >> that we're used to seeing for all of our devices. that has now changed to what was a 30-pin connector to an